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On the contrary, there is not an hour we have passed together that is not present to my memory." "Yes, yes," said Porthos, trying to give to his mustache a curl which it had lost whilst he had been alone. "Yes, we did some fine things in our time and we gave that poor cardinal a few threads to unravel." And he heaved a sigh.
Had D'Artagnan continued his intimacy with these three men he would have become a superior character. Athos was the first to leave him, in order that he might retire to a little property he had inherited near Blois; Porthos, the second, to marry an attorney's wife; and lastly, Aramis, the third, to take orders and become an abbe.
"Diavolo!" cried Mazarin, almost choked, and clasping his hands; "I am a lost and ruined man!" But without listening to his protestations of alarm, D'Artagnan slipped him gently down into the arms of Athos, who stood immovable at the bottom of the wall. Porthos next made an effort which shook the solid wall, and by the aid of his friend's hand gained the summit.
While Porthos and Mousqueton were breakfasting, with the appetites of convalescents and with that brotherly cordiality which unites men in misfortune, d'Artagnan related how Aramis, being wounded, was obliged to stop at Crevecoeur, how he had left Athos fighting at Amiens with four men who accused him of being a coiner, and how he, d'Artagnan, had been forced to run the Comtes de Wardes through the body in order to reach England.
The latter hurried after him, with Porthos in the rear, and after threading a labyrinth of corridors, introduced him to M. Percerin's room. The old man, with his sleeves turned up, was gathering up in folds a piece of gold-flowered brocade, so as the better to exhibit its luster.
The musketeer did to the bishop precisely as the bishop had done to Porthos he tapped him on the shoulder. Evidently Aramis pretended to sleep; for, instead of waking suddenly, he who slept so lightly required a repetition of the summons. "Ah! ah! is that you?" said he, stretching his arms. "What an agreeable surprise! Ma foi! Sleep had made me forget I had the happiness to possess you.
"As for the first, my change of rooms, and I now address myself to you as a man of honor and of great intelligence, could I, when the desire of so august a personage was so urgently expressed that I should move, ought I to have disobeyed?" Porthos was about to speak, but Saint-Aignan did not give him time to answer.
"Well; go off to your affairs, I will go away to mine. But it is quite understood, is it not?" "What 'is quite understood'?" "That no one is to enter the prisoner's cell, expect with an order from the king; an order which I will myself bring." "Quite so. Adieu, monseigneur." Aramis returned to his companion. "Now, Porthos, my good fellow, back again to Vaux, and as fast as possible."
"Well, my dear," replied Athos, "you know well that the balls most to be dreaded are not from the enemy." "But for such an expedition we surely ought to have brought our muskets." "You are stupid, friend Porthos. Why should we load ourselves with a useless burden?" "I don't find a good musket, twelve cartridges, and a powder flask very useless in the face of an enemy."
"One is for seven o'clock, and the other for eight; there will be time for both." "Hum! I would not go at all," said Aramis. "A gallant knight cannot decline a rendezvous with a lady; but a prudent gentleman may excuse himself from not waiting on his Eminence, particularly when he has reason to believe he is not invited to make his compliments." "I am of Aramis's opinion," said Porthos.
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